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Paving Your Paradise and Owning Your Authentic Voice

If you want to re-write your story, learn how to SPEAK UP and to hone and OWN your authentic voice so you can live your truth and next level your life, you’ll want to tune in to episode #11 of Pave Your Paradise Podcast, hosted by Mandy Ross – International coach, yoga and meditation instructor and TV and Media Personality, on a mission to help people to live the life of their dreams.

In this episode, Mandy features Michela Quilici – Award-Winning Business Growth Coach, Author, Speaker and Self-Leadership Advocate. They discuss the importance of rituals, reveal some must-have tools for personal success, share many powerful mindset shifts for getting unstuck & SO Much MORE!

Episode show notes also include…

  • Her day’s first order of business (00:35)
  • Her waking inspiration (1:07)
  • The power of the RIGHT connections (2:36)
  • Michela’s powerful story (6:04)
  • Awareness of your inner voice (12:12)
  • Childhood Imprint, Adult Impact (14:48)
  • Speaking up (15:42)
  • Why you’re not progressing at work (23:47)
  • What your business really is (28:37)
  • What she wishes she knew when she started out (31:02)
  • Her daily habits for success (35:52)
  • Her morning routine (44:13)
  • One behavior she practices that can change your life (47:40)
  • Tapping into your inner voice (53:59)
  • The art of (and resources for) quieting the mind (57:12)
  • What’s piquing her curiosity (1:00:56)
  • Her failures and the powerful role they play in your life (1:05:31)
  • Overcoming perfectionism (1:08:45)
  • Band-Aids on bullet wounds (1:13:42)
  • Tools in your healing toolbox (1:16:16)
  • Her radical life shifting moment (1:17:50)
  • Having tough, honest conversations with yourself (1:21:35)
  • The key to experiencing ultimate empowerment (1:22:31)
  • A life changing book (1:23:10)
  • Quote she lives by (1:24:03)
  • What she’s grateful for right now (1:25:22)
  • The person she would LOVE to have lunch with (1:26:11)
  • Her guilty pleasures and foodie talk (1:26:18)
  • What paradise means to her (1:28:43)

Listen to the Pave Your Paradise podcast episode #11 here.

About Michela Quilici

Michela Quilici is a Business Growth Strategist, Self-Leadership Coach, international bestselling author, and award-winning entrepreneur. For over 25 years, she has partnered with ambitious founders and CEOs—from early-stage ventures to 8-figure businesses, globally, to break through growth plateaus with clarity, confidence, and direction.


Known as a Business Navigator, Michela creates strategic roadmaps that align the business model, the operational systems, and the leader behind the business, blending sharp commercial insight with deep self-leadership to drive sustainable growth.


A professionally trained Flamenco dancer for over a decade, Michela helps speakers and dancers reconnect with their embodied presence, inner compass, and authentic expression. Michela is also the founder of Ladies Who Lead Global, an International movement of professional women with a mindset of leading beyond limits. Her work has been featured in Forbes, USA Weekly, and Canadian Living Magazine. She is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, the official Speaker Coach for TEDxVUAmsterdam, and named Top 15 Coaches in Amsterdam.